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程度副詞

The biggest reason why Warrior Cats is so popular is simple.

情態副詞

The series has quickly and consistently put out content every year for over two decades.

No matter what the quality of any individual book is, the quantity of material they have,

the number of characters and plots they have explored, and the number of expansions they

have made to the world are too vast for any other member of the genre to match, at least

To keep up that pace, Warriors has always had to rely on a team of people to conceive

of and write the books, distinctly separating those jobs in almost all cases, and that team

has only grown with time to include comic artists and writers, artists for special books,

more ghost writers, and many more editors since Victoria Holmes left.

That does mean that we as readers always have a lot of material to draw from for discussion,

art, roleplay, games, writing, or analysis depending on our preferences and investment

levels, but it also means that over 20 years and many, many people giving their input to

the canon, we have had to grapple with several different sources of information.

Were there a single, definitive source that the various creators had made from which to

gauge all existing lore, characters, relationships, and otherwise in the world, in other words,

a series bible, some of the problems we have grown into could have been avoided, but by

now, the damage has long since been done, and we have to live with the contradictions

Many, many books across the series have needed to or decided to retcon in elements that weren't

discussed or were actively contradicted in previous material, when the new idea would

better fit the story they were currently writing.

In addition, even outside the books, various members of the Erin team have said things

about the characters or world that weren't in the published material and often weren't

agreed upon by the team, instead being thought of hastily in the moment.

All these different sources: different people and even different books have been considered

As a fandom, many of us, especially those less invested in the books, get our information

second or third hand from artists or writers who have already reimagined or invented materials,

or from people who didn't check the original source for their own information.

But even when we look at the same canon published material, we can still interpret it differently,

especially considering what other pieces of canon we may or may not have read for context,

and whatever ideas we may get can then spread among the rest of the fandom and be considered

as commonplace an idea as something in a published work.

All of this is undoubtedly confusing, which is why, today, I would like to go through

a map of sorts to show how Warriors information gets to us, and from there, maybe we'll

be able to figure out what to do with it.

Starting at the top, we have the elements that go into a published work of Warriors.

There are, of course, a lot of factors, but I have split it broadly into three categories:

Editor Notes, the extremely lengthy guidelines the editors come up with for the plots, character

arcs, lore decisions, and so on for a book they're currently writing, Author Interpretations,

the small amounts of personal choice or interpretation of a character that ghostwriters are able

to inject while fleshing out the editors' outline, and Publisher Guidelines, whatever

the needs of the publisher and team might be absent of what they would like to put into

Putting all of these together is already bringing in a lot of voices, but they do work together,

and it is still a relatively small and finite number of people.

Once the book is published, though, things become much less contained.

First, sometimes even before the books come out, fans of all ages will summarize the story,

or parts of the story, for other fans to get a sense of what happens.

These summaries are almost certain to contain bias of some sort, be it leaving out some

details the summarizer didn't care about, focusing positively or negatively on a character

or plot they have strong feelings about, or adding in or taking away details they genuinely

didn't remember because they aren't summarizing the whole story word by word.

Despite this, these summaries are, for many, the only ways they consume certain books,

either because they didn't have interest in this entry to begin with or because the

summary itself told them all they needed to know to make their decision.

Off of these summaries, fan discussions can erupt which may or may not end up accurately

discussing the book thanks to the inherent bias of the source.

There have been times where discourse has erupted over something that, as it turns out,

My best advice around these is to take any summary with a grain of salt.

No matter how intent on honesty the summarizer is, avoiding bias in a situation like this

is impossible and there will almost certainly be some context somewhere that you are missing,

context that could make a situation in the books either better or worse.

Aside from general summaries, several people make active reviews of the books as they come

out, giving their opinions on how the story is coming together, what they think of the

characters, plot, and lore, and how it fits into the overall world and narrative of Warriors,

given what they can remember coming before.

These tend to be significantly more biased than summaries, by design, and they rarely

even claim to include a comprehensive look at the whole story.

Instead they tend to follow specific plot threads, characters, or details that the reviewer

has interest in and can fold in content from elsewhere in the series, personal theories,

or even fandom jokes and ideas if the reviewer finds them to be relevant.

People who view these reviews will get one person's take on the published material

and almost always will get several true facts on it, but without having read the material

itself it is hard to say you have a clear view of it, and especially hard to form an

opinion of your own distinct from what the reviewer thinks.

Out of these reviews, analyses, or theories, fan discourse can sprout up among larger groups

of people, many of whom will not have read the books.

This isn't a problem, and I'm not telling anyone they are wrong for not having read

a book, but it should be obvious from here how easy it would be for details to become

distorted, inflated, erased, or even made up over time.

It isn't just individuals who review or analyze books, though.

Entire groups on various platforms will often discuss the books as they come out, and those

discussions will almost inevitably end up focusing on a few key talking points and land

on a few key opinions over months or even years of discussing the new materials with

each release, leading to entire sectors of the fandom having precise, generally uniform

conceptions of different books or characters and often having little contact with other

Having two people who only know the books from these discussions, but on different platforms,

speak to each other can often sound like these people couldn't have possibly read the same

series, and it is where many, though not all heated arguments sprout from.

On a lighter note, the published material also inspires plenty of fandom material…but

as you can see, those have their own categories, so we'll come back to this later.

With the published material through, it's time to take a look at the second source…author

These can be made on a forum, on facebook or instagram, during an interview, in a letter,

or otherwise, but what binds these statements together is that they were made by one member

of the Erin Hunter team alone and often were made on a whim in answer to a spontaneous